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[PHP-DB] Email Article, Print Article
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| Tramelw@aol.com 2005-09-30, 6:56 pm |
| Hello,
I am running an article-based site, where I would like to add two buttons:
print this article and email this article.
Does anyone know where I could look to find out how to program this code
into my article.php page?
Thanks in advance,
Eddie Wonder
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| Bastien Koert 2005-09-30, 6:56 pm |
| Sure, not that hard...the usual trick with printing is to add this button
<input type='button' value='print' onclick='window.print();'>
To email it, I would add a button that has a link to the article (like the
id reference no) and then with the onlclick open a small window with the
form to add the email address(es). On submitting that little form, it pulls
the article from the storage and either embeds it or attaches it to an
email...depending on how you want to handle it...
Does that help?
Bastien
>From: Tramelw@aol.com
>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>Subject: [PHP-DB] Email Article, Print Article
>Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:50:37 EDT
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>Hello,
>
>I am running an article-based site, where I would like to add two buttons:
>print this article and email this article.
>
>Does anyone know where I could look to find out how to program this code
>into my article.php page?
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>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Eddie Wonder
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| Micah Stevens 2005-09-30, 6:56 pm |
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No, but it's pretty straightforward, just have each link to another script
along with a get variable that defines which article (assuming they're in a
database or something)
email_article.php?article=$articleID
print_article.php?article=$articleID
email_article.php: (pseudo code)
<?php
// first get article from storage
// setup mail_mime session (Pear class)
// attach article to friendly email, or insert directly.
// send it
?>
print_article.php:
<?php
// get article from storage
// print it on screen without headers and stuff you don't want to print.
?>
Done..
-Micah
On Friday 30 September 2005 10:50 am, Tramelw@aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running an article-based site, where I would like to add two buttons:
> print this article and email this article.
>
> Does anyone know where I could look to find out how to program this code
> into my article.php page?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Eddie Wonder
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| Tramelw@aol.com 2005-09-30, 6:56 pm |
| Thank you Bastian and Micah.
I had no idea the concept was so straightforward.
I guess I was close to making a mountain out of a molehill.
Thanks again,
E. Wonder
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| Leo G. Divinagracia III 2005-10-04, 3:55 am |
| Tramelw@aol.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running an article-based site, where I would like to add two buttons:
> print this article and email this article.
>
> Does anyone know where I could look to find out how to program this code
> into my article.php page?
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>
anothing this is to use CSS to strip out all of the fancy tables and
graphics and stuff in the "printed" page option.
plus, i use this trick to read a site that separates the article into
multipages.
when you click on the PRINTED option, it dumps the whole article into a
graphics free format... ;)
--
Leo G. Divinagracia III
leo.divinagraciaiii@csueastbay.edu
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